WRITERS' GUILD (GB) AWARDS 2023
-for work done from Oct 2021- Oct 2022
Writers’ Guild Awards Jan 2023 – full list of winners and Presenters
CATEGORY, PRESENTER, WINNER:
Outstanding Contribution:
Presenter: Stephanie Dale
David Edgar
Best Online Comedy:
Presenter: Josie Lawrence
The Room Next Door – Boris Johnson Resignation Speech by Michael Spicer
Best Long Running TV Series:
Presenter: Jack Thorne
Doctors, Episode 5, ‘Hello?’ By Toby Walton
Best Writing in a Video Game:
Presenter: Olivia Wood
Immortality, Sam Barlow, Barry Gifford, Amelia Gray and Allan Scott
Best Children’s TV Episode:
Presenter: Larry and Paul
Dodger, Episode 9, ‘Dosh’ by Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery
Best Radio Comedy:
Presenter: Michael Spicer
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen by David Quantick
Best Long Form TV Drama:
Presenter: Helen Lederer
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Best First Novel:
Presenter: John O’Farrell
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad
Best First Screenplay:
Presenter: Emma Ko
Passing by Rebecca Hall
Best Radio Drama:
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Waterloo Station by Katie Hims
Best Play for Young Audiences:
Presenter: Charlie Higson
The IT by Vivienne Franzmann
Best Play:
Presenter: Roy Williams
Wonder Boy by Ross Willis
Best Screenplay:
Presenter: Tony Grisoni
Munich – The Edge of War by Ben Power
Best TV Situation Comedy:
Presenter: Maurice Gran
Big Boys by Jack Rooke
Best Short Form TV Drama:
Presenter: Steven Moffat
Four Lives by Neil McKay
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE RADIO DRAMA/COMEDY AWARDS:
Year refers to the broadcast date. The ceremony (and the official award date) is early in the following year (Jan / Feb).
BEST RADIO DRAMA
2022 Waterloo Station, by Katie Hims
2021 The Half Widow, by Avin Shah
2020 No Award
2019 Forest 404 by Timothy Atack
2018 Stone, Episode 7, by Alex Ganley
2017 The Things We Never Said, by Ming Ho
2016 Fat Little Thing by Lucy Gannon
2015 Quill by Tony Jones
2014 A Night Visitor, by Stephanie Jacob
2013 Tennyson and Edison, by David Pownall
2012 Pandemic, by John Dryden (Indie, Goldhawk)
2011 Troll, by Ed Harris
BEST RADIO COMEDY
2022 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen by David Quantick
2021 From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbon
2020 No Award
2019 Prepper by Caroline Moran and James J Moran
2018 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 'Seventy-Three Seconds' by Sarah Kendall
2017 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy ‘A Day In October’ by Sarah Kendall
2016 Double Acts – Series 1, Episode 5, “English for Pony Lovers” by John Finnemore
2015 White Rolls The Dice, by Deborah Frances.
2014 The Brig Society, by Marcus Brigstocke
2013 Susan Calman Is Convicted, by Susan Calman
2012 I, Regress, by Matt Berry
2011 Cabin Pressure, by John Finnemore
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